Ribeira da Janela, Cape Verde
- Ribeira da Janela, Cape Verde
"For the parish in the Madeira Islands, see Ribeira da Janela"
Infobox River
river_name=Ribeira da Janela
"R’bera d Jenéla"
origin=Santo Antão
basin_country=Cape Verde
length=approximately 10 km
mouth_elevation=Atlantic Ocean
watershed=Atlantic Ocean
Ribeira da Janela (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC: "R’bera d Jenéla") is a ribeira (stream) that flows in the northeastern part of the island of Santo Antão in Cape Verde. The stream flows from west-southwest to east-northeast is almost dry and flows during rainy days.
Geography
The stream begins just northeast of the mountaintop and the caldera of Pico da Cruz. It flows into a cliffy valley and through the farmlands of the valley featuring banana and pineapple plantations, corn and other common crops. It flows into a small village filled with palm trees. For rest of the ribeira's length flows within the local road and within the cultivated lands together with the mountain slopes. The ribeira empties into the Atlantic Ocean, northeast of the road numbered the LBRA1 linking Ribeira Grande and Janela tens of metres northeast.
Rarely any streams empties into the Ribeira da Janela except for in the mountains.
Places within the stream
*Janela, southeast
External links
* [http://www.ecaboverde.com/cat64.htm Photos of the Ribeira da Janela and its valley at ecaboverde.com] - eleven photos (as of December 2006) on the most spoken languages in the world including English, French and Portuguese
ee also
*List of streams in Cape Verde
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